Rachel Carson's Silent Spring compares to environmentalist Barry Lopez's views of how we are presently ruining the land today. She writes about how our use of DDT to kill insects is also having an effect on the land as well as ourselves. In her book, she points out that the pesticide we spray on crop lands, forests, or gardens goes into the soil where our food is grown, and therefore these poisons go into our bodies and stay there until death. For years, magazines turned down her articles about DDT and other pesticides, but she remained trying and wrote Silent Spring. "No book has had a greater impact on our thinking about the environment" (6). Carson believes that we don't even know the "devils of our own creations" (20). Lopez believes in so many of the same things that he dedicates his book; The Rediscovery of North America to Carson in order to keep the memory of her alive, as well as her beliefs. They both write about how we think of what will benefit us, and do whatever it is without thinking of the possible results. Carson's explanation of what happens with DDT, connecting it with ourselves, makes us realize that we need to think of all possibilities. If something is powerful enough to kill us, then it most likely is something we shouldn't do.
             That is what Lopez is trying to tell us. He wants us to think before we act, and not repeat
             history. In The Rediscovery of North America, Barry Lopez tells us that we need to find our
             "querencia" which Lopez describes as "a place on the ground where one feels secure, a place
             from which one's strength of character is drawn" (39). He wants us to learn about the land, to
             rediscover the continent. In order to do so, Lopez tells us we have to listen to the land, to "walk
             it, eat from its soil and from the animals that ate its plants" (33-34). Lopez tells us he would sit
             in one place for two or thr...